Siccome ne ho già scritto su questo blog e penso ne valga la pena, vi incollo un post che ho fatto su yskira.com sul solito tema di internet, mappe e interfacce. Leggete.

Thanks to the internet, we now own more knowledge than we can possibly absorb. As a consequence, the web is more and more about interfaces, about the way we’re served this cognitive over-abundance and the graphic ways we can filter it. Interfaces become the aesthetics of the latest postmodernity: when all information is common, to filter, choose, and even discard it, is an act of elegance, a semiotic gesture more significant than information itself. So, the explosion of maps, indexes, graphs and charts over the internet becomes the world wide web’s most relevant content. (more…)